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| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 10:50 PM CST Especially mathematicians, who spend all their days doing boring sums in some remote world of the intellect.Some news, guys: it's not true.  |
| Government Considers Punishing Americans for Driving Less Posted: 02 Jan 2009 10:40 PM CST Motorists are driving less and buying less gas, which means fuel taxes aren't raising as much money for transit programs. While Americans are managing their money more carefully and cutting down on fossil fuel consumption, the government is considering hiking the gas tax. Perhaps the government should just try managing its money better, too.  |
| Dungeness Crabs: California's Deadliest Catch Posted: 02 Jan 2009 10:40 PM CST Dungeness crabs are not only a winter treat; they are also the most valuable catch on the West Coast. More than 400 boats ply the waves in the early winter and lay their crab pots off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.  |
| Seven new wonders of the world Posted: 02 Jan 2009 10:30 PM CST Amazing.  |
| 100+ Remarkably Beautiful Twitter Icons And Buttons Posted: 02 Jan 2009 10:00 PM CST Want to increase your Twitter Followers? Here is a huge compilation of the Top 100 Twitter Icons And Buttons that you can use on on your site to promote your profile.......  |
| Balloon priest wins Darwin Award for stupidity Posted: 02 Jan 2009 09:50 PM CST A daredevil Catholic priest who was killed after floating out to sea suspended by 1,000 helium-filled party balloons has been honoured for his idiocy.  |
| Spectacular 360 degree panorama of Budapest Posted: 02 Jan 2009 08:40 PM CST Quicktime required. Ambient city noise played after the jump.  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 08:20 PM CST Abstruse Goose  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 07:40 PM CST The Wine development release 1.1.12 is now available.  |
| Facebook nudity policy angers nursing moms Posted: 02 Jan 2009 07:30 PM CST Web-savvy moms who breast-feed are irate that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace restrict photos of nursing babies. The disputes reveal how the sites' community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the booming number and diversity of their members.  |
| IE falls below 69% market share, Firefox climbs above 21% Posted: 02 Jan 2009 07:10 PM CST Microsoft was not able to slow the market share loss of its Internet Explorer (IE) web browser in December. IE surrendered more than 1.5 points in December, according to Net Applications, while Firefox, Chrome and Safari posted substantial gains.  |
| What wouldn't you do in front of your spouse? Posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:50 PM CST For a couple in their sixties, Cynthia MacGregor and her live-in partner, Grant, have few hang-ups about personal boundaries: In their household, the bathroom door is always open, regardless of what's taking place inside.  |
| 20 Weird Logos That Work (and Why They Do) Posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST Logos are everywhere. Because of this, only a few can rise among the noise -- and often it's the more unique logos that are most memorable. Sometimes to be unique, you've also got to be weird. In this post, we showcase twenty lovably strange logos that work.  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:20 PM CST Rand Memorial Hospital in the Bahamas tells TMZ the son of John Travolta died today.We're told 16-year-old Jett was vacationing with Travolta and wife Kelly Preston. We do not know the circumstances of his death.  |
| The year in IPv4 addresses: almost 200 million served Posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:10 PM CST The world used 197 million new IPv4 addresses in 2008, leaving 926 million addresses still available. The US remains the biggest user of new addresses, but China is catching up quick.  |
| Colts' Peyton Manning wins his third NFL MVP Award Posted: 02 Jan 2009 06:00 PM CST Manning now joins Brett Favre as the only people to win the award 3 times.  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 05:50 PM CST I'm sure you'll all agree that 2008 was a crazy year, so I thought I would take a moment to recap some Digg highlights. - Kevin  |
| 17 Molecules That Changed the World Posted: 02 Jan 2009 05:40 PM CST All molecules are not created equal. Some have saved billions of lives, wreaked environmental havoc or made the world a more colourful place. Here's our selection of those that have changed the course of human history.  |
| How To Run Linux From A USB Drive Posted: 02 Jan 2009 05:40 PM CST Take Ubuntu or Fedora wherever you go. Nothing can beat having a great Linux distro installed on a super-fast hard drive, with all your favourite apps configured just how you like them and all your files at your fingertips.  |
| 7 Great Guitar Hero and Rock Band Hacks, With Video Posted: 02 Jan 2009 05:30 PM CST The familiar hardware for Guitar Hero and Rock Band cries out to be tinkered with, and do-it-yourselfers answered the call: playing real guitars, rigging up double bass drums and just plain cheating.  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 05:10 PM CST WARMER temperatures and earlier melting of sea ice are causing polar bears to go hungry. The number of undernourished bears has tripled in a 20-year period.  |
| Marissa Mayer's 2009 Resolution: Leave Google Posted: 02 Jan 2009 05:00 PM CST What will Google be like without Marissa Mayer, the glamour nerd whose goofy laugh so neatly captures the search engine's adolescent awkwardness? We'll know soon. We hear the company's 19th employee is planning her goodbye.  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 04:50 PM CST Annis and his wife, Juanita, were surprised to receive a Christmas card, mailed from the United States, that was addressed to "Hick in the Woods." Not only that, but the envelope went on to give their address as: 1 tree past the squirrel's hole, 3 runs past the deer lick, 1 leap over the felled oak tree.  |
| ASIMO Humanoid Robot in Rose Parade Posted: 02 Jan 2009 04:30 PM CST Honda's Rose Parade float, a 49-foot replica of their ASIMO humanoid robot, the parade's first-ever hydrogen-powered fuel cell pace car, the Honda FCX Clarity, and a 1959 Honda Super Cub motorcycle kicked off the 120th Rose Parade on Jan. 1, 2009 in celebration of Honda's 50th anniversary of U.S. operations.  |
| Shouting at Hard Disks Increases Latency?! Posted: 02 Jan 2009 04:00 PM CST Impressive demonstration that shows the concrete effect even a little disk vibration has on latency!  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 03:50 PM CST April 18, 1935. Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas.  |
| Electronics Recycling for the New Year Posted: 02 Jan 2009 03:30 PM CST Electronics Recycling for the New Year  |
| Five File-Sharing Predictions for 2009 | TorrentFreak Posted: 02 Jan 2009 03:20 PM CST What will happen to BitTorrent users and their favorite sites in the new year? What will happen to the music industry's new efforts to combat piracy with the help of ISPs, and what about efforts to legalize file sharing? We asked guest columnist Janko Roettgers for his predictions for 2009.  |
| 'Safest' seat remarks gets Muslim family kicked off plane Posted: 02 Jan 2009 03:10 PM CST A Muslim family removed from an airliner Thursday after passengers became concerned about their conversation say AirTran officials refused to rebook them, even after FBI investigators cleared them of wrongdoing.  |
| Battle of the Touch-Screen Smartphones Posted: 02 Jan 2009 02:50 PM CST The iPhone may have started the touch-screen smartphone trend, but these days, there's no shortage of competition. Which handset is right for you?  |
| Apple Researching Gloves For Use With Multi-Touch Devices Posted: 02 Jan 2009 02:40 PM CST The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office today released a patent application from Apple describing research into gloves that allow the wearer to operate electronic devices. Apple clearly intends for the glove to be used in conjunction with Multi-Touch devices such as the iPhone and iPod touch and to cover a much broader class of electronic devices.  |
| Bank error leaves man $208 billion overdrawn! Posted: 02 Jan 2009 02:20 PM CST BANK'S "technical error" leaves one shocked customer with a massive overdraft. The 38-year-old, from Irvine on Scotland's east coast, said his wife noticed the somewhat "major discrepancy of two £50-billion debits'' after he logged on to his account online  |
| Bank of America, Wells close mergers as banking transforms Posted: 02 Jan 2009 02:10 PM CST Bank of America Corp completed its purchase of Merrill Lynch & Co and Wells Fargo & Co finished buying Wachovia Corp, the latest sea changes in a transformed banking industry facing dire economic...  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 01:50 PM CST Sad...  |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2009 01:40 PM CST In a fresh sign of the economic turmoil hitting publishing and the Internet, the company behind reader-supported photography journal JPG, 8020 Media, is shutting down.  |
| Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss - First Look and photos Posted: 02 Jan 2009 01:20 PM CST Supercar from future for just 750,000 euro  |
| 7 Cleantech Stories of 2008 that will Change Everything Posted: 02 Jan 2009 01:01 PM CST It can sometimes be a little unclear (especially first day of a new year) how the previous year changed the world. But I like to think that we can make some pretty good guesses about which of this year's innovations are going to be with us, and changing our world, for a good long time.  |
| Did This Man Just Rewrite Science? Posted: 02 Jan 2009 12:50 PM CST There are 256 rules you can concoct to play this simple game. Most will create a boring or repetitive pattern. But at least one rule will cause the page to explode into complex, ever-shifting patterns. You will have created a so-called universal computer, equal in its computational sophistication to Apple's jazziest laptop.  |
| 7 Classic Disney Movies That Taught Us Terrible Lessons Posted: 02 Jan 2009 12:40 PM CST Maybe we're too hard on Disney. After all, they simply remake classic stories in cartoon form. What's not to like? Well, as you'll see, it all depends on just how much thought you apply to it. Here's seven pretty terrible lessons that Disney films taught us, whether they meant to or not.  |
| Android G1 Phone is an Enticing Platform for App Developers Posted: 02 Jan 2009 12:20 PM CST The free and open source software community has been waiting for the G1 cell phone since it was first announced in July. Source code for Google's Android mobile platform has been available, but the G1 marks its commercial debut. It's clearly a good device, but is it what Linux boosters and FOSS advocates have long been anticipating?  |
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